A Laytonville man was arrested early Sunday after allegedly abandoning a stolen vehicle that crashed into a rock and caught fire near a section of the Coastal Trail in Fort Bragg, the Fort Bragg Police Department reported.

According to the FBPD, officers responded to the Pudding Creek Trestle on Glass Beach Drive around 4:45 a.m. Feb. 24 when it was reported that a vehicle was on fire, and there they reportedly found a white Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck that had hit a rock barrier in a parking lot near the walkway over the trestle.

The driver had abandoned the truck, which had been reported stolen from the 300 block of Cypress Street earlier that morning. Inside the vehicle, officers reportedly found clothing identified as belonging to the suspected driver, later identified as Nicholas Scarberry, 39, of Laytonville.

Officers then received a report of a man in the 1100 block of North Main Street who was “looking into the windows of vehicles and appeared to have been involved in a traffic collision.” Officers responded to the area and found Scarberry, whom they identified as being the driver of the Silverado.

Scarberry was first transported to the Mendocino Coast District Hospital for treatment, then after sobriety tests were performed he was booked into Mendocino County Jail on suspicion of vehicle theft, hit-and-run, driving under the influence and violating his probation.

Anyone with more information about this incident is asked to call the FBPD at 707-961-2800.